The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections ...

For many years, semiconductor lasers, tiny chips emitting light, have been the workhorse of the optical communications industry, sending data signals around the world via a web of optical fibres.

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